Our U20’s and U17’s finished a narrow second 4 points behind Havering. We now lead the division with 17 points to Havering’s 15. We need to beat Havering in the next match to secure promotion to the Southern Premier Division for 2018. Full Results

Full Results PB’s for Iona Newbegin in the 100m/200m 12.21w/25.80w, a win for Will Forster U20 in the 800m 2:04.73 an one for Frankie Johnson U17 in the pole vault 4.60m & Kara Gibbs SW 2.80m

English Schools Combined Events Anglian Regional Final, Bedford

Several of our members competed in this representing their school counties, with some outstanding results and a host of personal best in both the whole event and in individual events. Stephen Simmons and Jack Tull qualified for the national finals to be held in Boston on 16/17 September.

News Lauren Russell has been selected to run in Mannheim, Germany in the 400m for the Great Britain juniors on July 1st. This is her second GB vest she also ran for the junior team at the Loughborough International in May.

On a very hot Sunday afternoon our youngsters were sixth in the match and will need an extremely strong performance in the last home fixture to stay in the division. Full Results

A string wins were few. Etienne Maughan U13 won the 75m in a PB of 10.0 the 75mH in 11.7 and the 150m in 19.6. Natailie Simmons U13 won the 1200m 3:54.5 PB, Zena Saez U13 ran a blistering final lap to overhaul a distant front runner and win the 1500m 4:46.2 PB. Steven Simmons U15 won the 80m H 11.5 PB & Long Jump 5.86m PB. Udoka Fintelmann U13 won the Javelin 31.71

In a very tight match, we finished equal second with Herts Phoenix on 181 points with Dartford on 187 in first. We just missed out on overall victory by having too many gaps in some field events in with last minute illnesses and some injuries on the day. Our 6 A string wins on the track is a was the best by far this season. Full Results

Joel Parkes was the star with a double sprint victory in the 100 11.3 and 200 22.6. Chris Thornley ran an impressive PB to win the 400 51.8. Josh Lunn won the 1500 4:11.6 after having run a swift non scoring 800. Jake Barraclough won the 2000 SC 6:31.7. Jack Benedickter won 110H 18.9. In the field, Richard Martin won the hammer 57.20.

Mia Chapman won the 100m 12.4, Jodie Leslie won the 200m 25.2, Rebecca Murray won the 1500m 4:40.0, Diana Chalmers won the 2000SC 8:02.1, Leanne Buxton won the Shot 10.97 & the wome won the 4x100m relay 49.0

Greensand Ridge Relay A group of older members ran the relay along the ridge from Leighton Buzzard to Northill and finished tenth on handicap approx 1 hour 20 behind the fastest team. Paul Wilkerson & Andy Blair well ahead of the age based handicaps.

A good turn out with lots of good performances. The men won their match by fifteen points from Cambridge, Milton Keynes were third. We lead the division by a a few points. There were wins for Pete Benedickter, Tenny James & Chris Keech 200m, Simon Coombes & Andy Leach 1500m, Tenny James 100mH, Mark Burgman Javelin, Dave Folgate Triple Jump & High Jump, Steve Bass High Jump & a win in the M35 4x200m relay. Results

Saturday 3 & Sunday 4 June 2017

Eastern Young Athletes League, Hemel Hempstead

Bedford won with 793 points from Stevenage 721. We now lie 3rd on equal points with league leaders Havering and Ipswich. Full Results

Bedford were 6th after spending most of the afternoon in 7th, 7th= or 8th place. A late flurry of good results in pole vault, Triple Jump, 5000m and the javelin pulled us up to give a 4.7 point margin over Yeovil (7th). However we are still in overall 7th spot, 2 points behind Yeovil, after two matches. We have to beat both Yeovil and Derby/Mansfield soundly in the next two matches to avoid relegation. It was a tough match we had no A string wins only a couple of second places. Our best event was javelin with Marcio Fernandes 2nd A 48.31 and Robson Angell 1st B 47.98. In the pole vault Javier was 2nd A 3.88 and Richard Phelan 2nd B 3.28. Jack Benedickter won the B 400H 59.46. Joel Ametemu in his first outing at senior level came 2nd in the Triple Jump B string 12.01. Jean Mozobo got some good jumps in long jump 6.50 and triple jump 12.91 to score despite an injury. Andrew Headley ran a PB of 15:50.40 in the 5000m (4S) as did Will Mullins 15:51.63 (2B) GraemePackman

UK Womens League National Division 1, Bedford

Results on Po10. The Bedford team were seventh one half of a point behind Harrow (we had an advantage of 10 officials points over Harrow). Mia Chapman was close to her PB in the 100m and ran a PB in the B 200m (25.1). Lauren Russell & Jodie Leslie were 2nd in the 400m. Kathryn Woodcock won the Discus with a throw of 50.50.